adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a solar eclipse ( also an eclipse of the Sun ) (= one in which the Sun is hidden behind the Moon )
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You need to wear protective glasses to view a solar eclipse.
solar cell
solar energy
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The water pump is powered by solar energy.
solar heating (= heating powered by the sun )
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They've installed solar heating in the new house.
solar panel
solar plexus
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a blow to the solar plexus
solar power (= energy produced by sunlight )
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They use solar power for all their heating.
solar radiation (= from the sun )
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How can solar radiation be trapped and used?
solar system
solar year
the lunar/solar cycle (= relating to the moon or the sun )
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the 28-day lunar cycle
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
activity
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The neutron observations may help cast new light on solar flares and solar activity .
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An increase in the number of dark spots on the sun marks such a period of high solar activity .
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They say that the concentrated magnetic fields in sunspots spread out all over the sun somewhat after the maximum of solar activity .
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The effects of geomagnetic and solar activity over the long term are important factors in planning satellite missions.
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The ability to forecast ionospheric conditions is related to solar activity .
cell
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Note that the solar cell has an efficiency of only about 10%.
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Research on solar-cell design has recently shown us how to make extremely lightweight solar cells .
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Alternatively, arrays of solar cells may be made on the Moon out of lunar materials and only the power exported.
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He is planning another trip into the countryside to demonstrate his solar cells as well as a new solar cooker.
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But solar cells are constantly improving, experts say.
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These modular construction kits now include solar cells , rechargeable batteries etc.
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A solar cell panel repays the electric power needed to manufacture it in its first few hours of operation.
collector
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A solar collector area of around 4m 2 to 5m 2 is usually considered the optimum.
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Large solar collectors would be deployed, probably on roving processing plants, to focus sunlight on to the baking ovens.
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The concept is essentially one of replacing expensive solar collectors and solar cells with tree leaves.
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Suppose we have a processor with a thousand-square-meter solar collector .
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They use solar collectors and windmills for energy supply and each region aims at self-sufficiency in proteins.
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Would not these storms coat solar collectors and solar-cell panels with a thick layer of dust, shutting them down?
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The main difficulty will be in installing the solar collector itself.
cycle
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But a feature of each solar cycle is that the magnetic poles reverse.
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The maximum in the current solar cycle has passed, but both solar and geomagnetic activity remain high.
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During the 206-year solar cycle the sunlight received by the Earth changes by only 0.1 %.
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In summary, our results provide circumstantial support for the hypothesized link between solar cycle length and irradiance.
eclipse
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That special trams were run to enable people to view a solar eclipse ?
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No solar eclipses will be visible from the United States in 1996, and only two will be visible from Earth.
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As the day of the solar eclipse approached, Ellie received many invitations from well meaning friends.
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Twenty-one shots of the solar eclipse hang beside a woman bending over in the bath.
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But when you have a solar eclipse in your sign at Christmas, things are going a bit too far.
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This is a total solar eclipse .
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Consequently the dates of total solar eclipses form a rather complex sequence.
energy
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Cheap solar energy conversion has been a dream of some scientists since the first oil crisis back in the late 1970s.
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Furthermore, Conservation moves are very effective in this sector and solar energy is very suitable for water heating needs.
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All these provide indirect means of converting solar energy to forms of energy which are useful to us.
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We now know that solar energy is an idea whose time has come.
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He wondered again about its black color; that was ideal, of course, for absorbing solar energy .
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Grätzel has turned this precise, and expensive, physicist's approach to solar energy conversion on its head.
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Also, the monsoon overcast tended to cut down the amount of solar energy available.
flare
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The neutron observations may help cast new light on solar flares and solar activity.
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Unshielded, an astronaut could be exposed to hundreds of rads during a solar flare .
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For solar flares , a system of early warning satellites around the Sun could detect the first sign of trouble.
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This also shows that the ejections are not necessarily triggered by solar flares , a view that has recently been gaining support.
gain
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The windows are not designed for ventilation, but to admit daylight and control solar gain .
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This assumption omits any effects from both solar gains and thermal mass.
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All living rooms and bedrooms face south or west and have large windows for passive solar gain and planted pergolas for shading.
panel
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There are two techniques for using a wind generator or a solar panel .
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Here, 300 workers are busy pumping out solar panels .
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The result has been that solar panels are now comparable in price to wind generators.
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The most obvious source of the necessary electrical energy would be solar panels set out on the lunar surface.
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The major difficulty with comparing solar panels is that manufacturers' output figures can not be compared.
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The batteries for the torches were recharged from the wind generator and the solar panels , as was the radio battery.
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Most of the solar panels we came across in our survey used monocrystalline silicone cells.
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Only the solar panels were kept clear so they could continue to generate electricity.
plexus
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A drop of juniper can also be rubbed into your forearms and solar plexus .
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You go crazy with the frustration and throw a bad punch and take his counter in your mouth or solar plexus .
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He began to work on the body, aiming for the solar plexus all the time.
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When I finally saw his face, the muscles surrounding my solar plexus contracted fiercely with the shock of recognition.
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The impact of that failure must have been like a fierce left hook in the solar plexus .
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You could then lean back and pick up the front foot, thrusting it straight into the opponent's solar plexus .
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Had the batsman not ducked, the ball might have struck him in the solar plexus .
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It was like a jagged knife, jerking in her solar plexus .
power
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But the idea of full-blown solar power stations is unrealistic in the foreseeable future.
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The belt provides vast material resources, vast amounts of solar power , and vast elbow room.
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Publications for teachers and pupils on wind and solar power are available.
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The Sacramento Municipal Utilities District has a similar program for solar power .
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The second is that solar power can supply all of Britain's energy needs.
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Thus, it is solar power that provides the energy to heat the exhaust.
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The sun may not shine that much on Britain but that doesn't exclude us from using solar power .
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But solar power remained a tantalizing lure to both environmentalists and entrepreneurs.
radiation
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Crop yields would fall as a result of shorter growing periods, and reduced solar radiation due to heavier cloud cover.
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They grow long tails as material streams away from their rocky cores driven by solar radiation .
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But because ultraviolet radiation is a constant feature of solar radiation, the ozone layer is maintained.
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Yet the solar radiation from the sun, then a faint, young star, was approximately 30 percent less.
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How can solar radiation be directly trapped and used?
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Capital cost is nearly £7 for every watt of electrical energy to be produced by solar radiation .
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Indeed, infra-red light is chiefly responsible for the general warming effect of solar radiation .
sail
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The creation of this solar sail is something that should be done anyway.
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What's the launch schedule of the test solar sail and how long will it stay in orbit?
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We will broadcast messages from the solar sail which will be relayed to the toys in local languages.
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There are many missions that only solar sails can do.
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These solar sails would be slow to accelerate, but could eventually reach high speeds - at zero fuel cost.
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I think the most exciting idea is to launch an Earth-Moon solar sail race.
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So how did you get from airships to solar sails ?
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In trying to learn about inflatable technology, I came across the solar sail concept.
system
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A less-contrived example involves the relation between Kepler's theory of the solar system and Newton's.
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The supposed permanent subsolar point would be the hottest place in the solar system outside the Sun.
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Henceforth the whole cosmos or at least the whole solar system must be conceived as a process of constant historical change.
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All the heavy materials came from junk spinning somewhere around in the solar system .
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Female speaker Can anyone one tell me about the solar system , or anything they know about it.
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Not long ago I had read that each atom was a sort of solar system .
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If we could observe several different solar systems around other stars, the resulting constants would vary.
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More than a million life forms have developed on this unique spot in the solar system .
wind
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The solar wind loses its identity in the interstellar medium at a distance no less than that of the outer planets.
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It is true that the Sun emits helium-3 in the solar wind , and that in principle we could intercept it.
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When the solar wind is strong the magnetopause retreats to about 50 R J upwind.
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The lunar surface also contains the light isotope helium-3, which is implanted in the surface by the solar wind .
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Between the bow shock and the magnetopause the solar wind is greatly decelerated.
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An obvious question is whether the surfaces of the asteroids might be rich in helium-3 implanted by the solar wind .
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Some theorists even believe that solar wind particles hitting the atmosphere may trigger cloud formation.
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Kulcinski argues that the solar wind has implanted great quantities of hydrogen and helium into the lunar regolith.
year
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Our calendar year is based on the solar year - the number of days the earth takes to travel round the sun.
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But since then our calendar year has been the same as the solar year.
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The nineteen-year cycle depends on the discovery that nineteen solar years are very nearly equal to 235 lunar months.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the solar system
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a solar observatory
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An increase in the number of dark spots on the sun marks such a period of high solar activity.
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At times of strong solar heating there may be many active dust devils at the same time.
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But because ultraviolet radiation is a constant feature of solar radiation, the ozone layer is maintained.
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Furthermore, Conservation moves are very effective in this sector and solar energy is very suitable for water heating needs.
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Girl, light the torches in the solar !
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Guy took two steps away from the solar door and had to stop.
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The first solar panels were developed by Bell Laboratories in 1954 as part of the space program.
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There are many missions that only solar sails can do.